"The Ken Burns Effect", a document of the Stars Like Fleas’s growth over the past year, is an iconoclastic but more immediate, organic and lush album than its predecessor ("Sun Lights Down On The Fence", an album that received reams of critical praise and which Pitchfork gave an 8.2 and called ’intimate and utterly beautiful’).

When Fleas-fan, the composer Nico Muhly (arranger to Björk, Grizzly Bear, and Antony & The Jonsons) helped pass along early recordings drafts from The Ken Burns Effect to Björk producer/collaborator Valgeir Sigurðsson, the band were invited to Iceland to complete and mix in the fall of 2006.